This chapter by Carlos Arze, researcher and former executive director of CEDLA , is part of the Bolivia Information Forum Bulletin Special Edition on Extractive Industries - March 2013.

*The Bolivia Information Forum (BIF) produces a regular bulletin which is written by experts in Bolivia and in the UK and also includes frequent guest contributions from practitioners and reporters on development and human rights issues.

In this chapter, Pablo Poveda, a researcher with the Center of Labor and Agrarian Development Studies (CEDLA), discusses the prospects of the Development Plan of Bolivia´s President Evo Morales and the country´s future relations with China.

Arze, Carlos. 2008. "The Perverse Effects of Globalization in Bolivia". John Crabtree and Laurence Whitehead Ed. In Unresolved Tensions: Bolivia Past and Present. Pittsburg: University of Pittsburg Press.

In this chapter, Arze discusses globalization’s impact on the Bolivian economy as well as the effects of the fixing of the price of gas exported and the implementation of the Hydrocarbons Law 1731.